Donoghue and Winter Shortlisted for Orange Prize

Canadian writers Emma Donoghue (Room, HarperCollins Canada/ Picador) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel, House of Anansi Press/ Jonathan Cape) have been shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction. The award ceremony will take place on June 8 in London, England. Congratulations to the six shortlisted authors!

Great news for all Barbara Kingsolver fans: "To celebrate the 2011 shortlist, the Orange Book Store — www.orange.co.uk/bookclub — is giving away 250 free eBooks of The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the 2010 Orange Prize, exclusively to Facebook fans. After the first 250 copies have been won, the Orange Book Store will offer all Facebook fans the chance to purchase The Lacuna at a special 50% discount for one week only, until 18 April. Visit www.facebook.com/orangeprize to enter.

André Alexis is a short-story writer, novelist and playwright. His latest book, Asylum, was published by McClelland & Stewart this spring.

This video, directed by filmmaker Francis-Anne Solomon, is from LiteratureAlive.ca, a website that offers "high quality reference resources related to the literary works of twenty-six Caribbean-Canadian authors of English and French heritage."